Neo Geo mini arcade

[Pocket Lucho], the builder of mini arcade cabinets, is back with another build. This time it’s a miniature Neo Geo arcade machine (translated). The build is very compact and neat. He attached the control panel and the PS one display using magnets to make the wiring more accessible. It has video out and second player input too. You’ll find an assembly video embedded below along with a trial run.

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20 thoughts on “Neo Geo mini arcade”

Nice! I was thinking about making a mini arcade cabinet with a mega drive but decided against it after researching more into the psone LCD and finding how only a certain screen from a specific region would work with these machines, didn’t want to risk finding halfway through the build that the LCD I bought would never work (although I could be wrong about the whole region thing).

Hi, the problem with the lcd is the 50/60 hz, pal works at 50 hz (slower framerate) and ntsc at 60 hz (the real thing) so… ntsc better. Sony make 2 models instead of one compatible with both regions, other screens maybe doesn´t hace this problem.

Why not use a Dingoo running Dingux (see: http://tinyurl.com/q97e3d) for a diy arcade cabinet? it already comes equipped with a a/v out so any cheap display with a composite in will do and the controller would just need some new wiring

The problem is that the neogeo mvs works only with the 60 hz screen… in a pal psone screen the image rolls, This screen is interlaced, not progresive, for this reason, I can conect directly the rgb and sync output to the screen, like pal tv, no supergun needed, For this reason, I think the rgb out only works on pal tvs…

I live in a pal area, but in the 16 bit era, this was a BIG problem, black bars due the extra resolution and slower gameplay for the 10 hz difference, the good thing is that ‘recent’ crt pal tvs accept pal and ntsc without any problem.

The dingo screen is too small, I prefer using a mini itx pc board, loke you will see soon ;)

do you sell these? im from the US and would like to buy one. i used to have a full size neo geo arcade machine in my apartment and this mini one would be amazing!! especially running samurai showdown 2!!

am having neoragex 5.0 on my laptop (windows XP)
and it was work before a full size resolution, after I formate the laptop the resolution come to small resolution, I think the reason is files with I guss ATI software .. have any one an idea about this.